Phantom Ranch Courage and a Lone Visitor at Sunset
Lorena, a Kentucky girl, explores Phantom Ranch high above a valley while Uncle George and ranch hands confront Mexican border tensions. Dinner runs smooth as Sally Brazee feeds twenty guests with Mexican servants, and Jerry Dale hovers around Lorena as the plot threads toward a collision of danger and romance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jon Hand
Sally
Lorena
Rod
Phantom Ranch
Larena
Kentucky
Big Jerry
Dale
Roosevelt aid debate marks recovery op ed in Post-Gazette
A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette excerpt discusses Roosevelt’s spending policies and Congress votes. It argues that aid bills fueled relief while social debt rose, and outlines how to spur business growth, employment, and future recovery. It notes critics claim the president’s plan failed to deliver quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levelt
Pitsburgh Post-Gazette
Congress
Igs
Roosevelt
Business must expand through aggressive sales to unlock idle purchasing power
The author urges industry to intensify expansion beyond current efforts. A bold sales campaign could release idle purchasing power, boost profits, and raise employment, countering Roosevelt's policies and critics blamed for continuing unemployment of over 10 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Roosevelt
The Hatch Bill Whether Needed in Modern Politics
The Wheeling Intelligencer argues the Hatch bill, now law, questions the propriety of political conventions being packed by federal officeholders or party officials. It recalls 1836 Democratic convention dynamics and suggests such influence harms representative government and potential Rooseveltan succession.
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Wheeling Intelligencer
Hatch
Mr. Roosevelt
H. B. Elliston
Ohetian Science Monitor
Roosevelt
West Virginia roadside camps face health scrutiny
West Virginia health officials report many roadside eateries and camps fail sanitary standards after inspecting 300 sites with only 32 cleared. The Upper Monongahela association offers a $100 prize list to top improving filling stations and tourist camps, scoring eight leading locations in June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont Times
West Virginian
West Virginia
West Virginia Department of Health
Upper Monongahela Association
Local highway beauty prize winners cited for upkeep
The article notes Pruntytown on U S Route 50 as a prize location with Sunset Inn further east of Grafton and D E Martin service station at Junior near Belington receiving awards. Competitors say the prizes motivate station and camp owners to clean properties and plant flowers, improving highway beauty where little existed.
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Néaf
Pruntytown
U. S. Route 50
Grafton
D. E. Martin
Junior
Belington
Silver lined beer mugs shine in new tests
Washington August 15 1 Scientists at the Federal Bureau of Standards report that lining tin cans with a two millionth inch silver film makes cans acid proof and helps kill bacteria after sealing. Silver additives in alloys greatly boost hardness of tin and stainless steel foils and reduce corrosion in saltwater. The findings suggest ships need less painting and dry docking time, while silver bearing alloys improve aircraft engine bearings and widen tin’s applications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Bureau of Standards
Akron student pilot dies in river crash after midair collision
The Akron aviation accident involved a student with a permit attempting a private license. Civil Aeronautics Inspector A Goff Jr of Pittsburgh and state aviation inspector Lieu tenant Hubert Stark watched from the ground as power planes flew about 1500 feet up. Chief pilot Clarence McElroy reported Krafts plane crossed Bow ers ship causing the Bowers aircraft to buckle its wings and plunge into the river, where a steamboat pulled it to shallow water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Contimen
Page One
Akron
Civil Aeronautics
A. Goff, Jr
Pittsburgh
Hubert Stark
Clarence McElroy
Kraft
Bowers
Governors Continuearém fame One
President Roosevelt commented on a trend cutting Christmas shopping by moving holidays closer to the season. He joked about the shift but said he would support merchants if the practice persisted, noting the change as precedent shattering and tied to wartime or policy timing.
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Lincoln
Roosevelt
Mars
James Lo
Reserve Bank
Bill Walton
Quadhus College
Arkansas
James Frasier
Plymouth
Mass
George A. Wilson
Town
William H. Vanderbilt
Rhode Island
Ralph L. Carr
Colorado
History of Taylor County emphasizes key figures and events
The history recounts the 1877 Taylor County Agricultural and Mechanical Society fair despite strike money shortages, notable figures like William R. D. Dent, his political career in West Virginia, and a long serving educator Amanda Abbott. It covers Dent’s roles from tax collector to senator, rail right of way work, and Abbott’s 47 years teaching in Grafton, her pension, honors, and lasting impact on the community.
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Taylor County Agricultural and Mechanical Society
William R. D. Dent
Grafton
Weston
M. H. Dent
Taylor County
Grafton and Greenbriar Railroad
Internal Revenue
John T. McGraw
State Senate
Monongalia
Preston
Taylor
West Virginia
House of Delegates
Willam Jennings Bryan
Neil J. Fortuney
Nineteenth Judicial District
Merchants and Mechanic Bank
Amanda Abbott
Board of Education
Old Central School
Cass
F. S. Suddarth
Quota Club
Miss Abbott
Blanche Guard
Fairmont
Calendar makers ponder which Thursday to mark Thanksgiving
The 1940 trade bleeds into calendar design as printers argue over which Thursday to print in red for Thanksgiving. The exchange frames a national tone about how to best honor the holiday.
Thanksgiving date clash shakes football schedule across states
A 1939 calendar dispute over Thanksgiving threatens multi state football matchups as towns weigh timing. Governors and local leaders debate delaying games beyond November 30, with Plymouth Massachusetts opposing change and Republican officials divided on honoring the traditional date versus national alignment.
Lorena Hamilton Meets Shot Rogers at Phantom Ranch
Lorena travels to Phantom ranch in Arimooa to visit her uncle and meet Shot Rogers among the Phantom Cowboys at the station. Jerry Dale, a college bred newcomer, has mused with Lorena and earned wary regard for elevating his role in her arrival as tensions simmer about Mexican threats and cattle theft linked to Livada Estobar.
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Nat Uly
Rancasign
Rogers
Jerry Dale
Lorena
George Brazes
George
Lorena Muermg
Shot
Arizona
Shot Rogers
Phantom Ranch
Luis Escobar
Mexico
Washington, DC
Jerry
Mrs. Brazee
Sally Brazie
Lorena Familton
Arimooa
Lorene Fnally
Lala Estobar
Ben
Heist In Long Beach Involving Stolen NYC Plates
A robbery in Long Beach involved suspects using a stolen New York City license plate car and armed with revolvers and a machine gun. They snatched money while a truck loaded with steel girders blocked traffic as a screen for escape. a driver was detained, and the loot was estimated around 10,000,000 dollars by a company official.
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Stoan
New York City
Logours
Long Beach
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Ame Holt
Ej, Gatrell
Busines
Postoffice
W. Va
TED Press
Associated Press
A. E B. Clayden Inc
New York
Abraham Lincoln
Guard
Republic@ns
Wall Street
Hrorass
Charles Brinkman
Miss Amanda Abbott
Philadelphia
Baltimore
St. Grafton
Baltimore & Ohio
Brazee
Sally Brazee
Hessewlic
Cone
Otle
Midnig
George Brazee
King
Star
Orena
William Kearns
Sun Indemnity Company of
New Yorkcity
AMET
Roveley Store
West
Tlver Grill
Fifth Avenue
Smithfield
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